DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT
- Wed, Sep 18
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Run Time: 92 min. Release Year: 1966 Language: Spanish
Starring: Gaspar De Santelices, Manuel Estanillo, Omar Alfonso, Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas
In this biting satire, a worker, a true proletarian, has died and is honored by friends and family at the cemetery, buried with his party card in his hand. When his family applies for his worker’s pension, however, they learn that they need his card to collect the benefits. Returning to the cemetery to retrieve the card, they are informed that the man’s card is necessary to prove he is dead and to disinter the body, leading to a cascade of bureaucracy of Kafkaesque proportions.
In Spanish with English subtitles
Preceded by:
El Arte de Tabaco (1974, Cuba, 8m, 2K DCP)